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IBM.Managing Consultant - Internet of Things Architect

Institute of Telematics at Luebeck University.Postdoctoral Researcher

June 2014 - October 2015
Luebeck - Germany

Institute of Telematics at Luebeck University.Teaching Assistant

April 2011 - April 2014
Luebeck - Germany
Teaching exercises for the Mobile Multimedia course and the Communication Systems for Multimedia Applications course for Master level students. The tasks have included preparing teaching material, conducting exercises, designing and supervising exercise projects. The exercises resulted into successfully adopted projects for the local community, as in the SoundOfTheCity project “Crowd-based Noise Monitoring” that became part of “Luebeck City of Science 2012” initiative.

Infolab21 / Lancaster University.Research Associate

February 2008 - October 2010
Lancaster – Untied Kingdom
Research associate at one of the top ranked institute in Britain in the ubiquitous computing field. This is a full-time job at the ALLOW - Adaptive Pervasive Work Flow project. The Allow project is funded by the European Community (the FP7-Programme) under the FET - Future and Emerging Technologies category.

International School of New Media at Luebeck University.Research Assistant

October 2005 - August 2008
Luebeck - Germany
Research assistant in the school, the main job is to work in media related projects such as the “Interactive spaces” project: a Multi-User Interactive Table-top for museums, "Port-net Project", ”GTZ-Tool for ICT development”, and “Competence Transfer”.

International School of New Media at Luebeck University.Master thesis student

April 2007 - November 2007
Luebeck - Germany
Ubiquitous Infrastructure For Contextualised Exhibition Services In this research thesis, a novel infrastructure, called Medient Infrastructure is designed, implemented and evaluated. Medient is aiming at enhancing the museum environment by providing visitors with personalised services on mobile and stationary devices based on the captured context.

Educational Technology Expertise Centre / Open University of the Netherlands.Internship

October 2006 - December 2006
Heerlen - The Netherlands
Campus Memories: Learning with Contextualised Blogging A mobile blogging model and architecture were developed based on mobile device in combined with identification tags “Semacode” and therefore leave “blog traces” in a physical environment. Campus memories is working prototype based JAVA technology was delivered. JAX-RPC web services, CLDC mobile programming, SOAP and XML protocols were the main technology elements. The results were published in the TENCompetence workshop in Manchester 11th 12th January 2007.

International School of New Media at Luebeck University.Ubiquitous Computing project

April 2006 - July 2006
Luebeck - Germany
eyeJOT Smart Campus ::Phase I eyeJOT is an interactive community bulletin system based on ubiquitous computing technologies. Users (students, faculty, etc.) can access their information about campus news, activities and a semester schedule. eyeJOT uses a combination of new technology as Bluetooth and SMS together with a new navigation metaphor combine distance and time. It provides detailed snapshots while at the same time providing overviews of life on campus.

Education

Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University.Doctoral Student

October 2010 - August 2014
Luebeck - Germany
This program at the the Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences is specially designed to train outstanding doctoral students through a structured teaching and research programme within an interdisciplinary and international environment. The PhD programme is characterized by professional supervision and quality curriculum.

April 2006- October 2007
I have been awarded one and half year scholarship by DAAD for further study and training in Germany. I was nominated as one of ten Palestinian students for this position.

International School of New Media at Luebeck University.Degree: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Digital Media

October 2005 - November 2007
Luebeck, Germany
A unique 24-month-long, postgraduate course Master of Science in Digital Media is entirely held in English. It combines a breadth of technological, economical and cultural aspects of New Media and finishes with a M.Sc. degree in Digital Media. This is not a program in computer science but its application in the media, among many other aspects. It places an emphasis on intercultural skills and interdisciplinary media competence.

September 1999 - June 2004
Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Eng.Computer Systems Engineering Branch field with accumulative average of (88.2). I am one of the five first-class students in the College of Engineering and Technology.

AL HUSSEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL.Degree: High school or equivalent - Palestinian Certification of general secondary education examination

July 1999
Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
Palestinian Certification of general secondary education examination With accumulative average (89).

AL HUSSEIN SECONDARY SCHOOL.Degree: High school or equivalent - Second secondary class

July 1998
Hebron - Palestine - West Bank
Second secondary class with accumulative average (92.9).

Honors and Scholarships

DFG-Funded Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences Doctoral Funding AwardGraduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University.

October 2010 - Now
Awarded a full Scholarship to pursue a PhD degree from the DFG-Funded Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences at Luebeck University.

April 2006 - October 2007
Awarded one and half year scholarship by DAAD for further study and training in Germany. I was nominated as one of ten Palestinian students for this position.

IoT Challenge Competition 2012 The 3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2012).

October 2012
Awarded as the winners for IoT Challenge Competition 2012 at the 3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT2012) in Wuxi, China for a contribution under the title “AmbientWeb: Bridging the Web's Cyber-physical Gap” (Darren Carlson, Bashar Altakrouri, Andreas Schrader).

Best Demonstration Award at IEEE Percom2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom 2013).

March 2013
The winners Percom2013 Best Demonstration Award at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom 2013), San Diego, California, USA for a contribution under the title “Reinventing the Share Button for Physical Spaces” (Darren Carlson, Bashar Altakrouri, Andreas Schrader).

Best Paper Award at IEEE iThings 2013 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2013).

August 2013
The winners of the IEEE iThings 2013 best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2013) in Beijing, China for a contribution under the title “An Ad-hoc Smart Gateway Platform for the Web of Things” (Darren Carlson, Bashar Altakrouri, Andreas Schrader).

Skills

Skill Level Years practiced Last used
Web 2.0 services using RSS, SOAP, XML, JAX-RPC. Intermediate Less than 1 years 3 months or less Ubiquitous computing projects Expert More than 8 Months 1 month or less Object Oriented programming using C++,VisualBasic.NET, PHP, and JAVA. Expert More than 6 years 2 months or less Database Systems as MS Access, and MySQL. Expert More than 4 years 6 months or less CDC AND CDLC Mobile programming using JAVA MIDlet. Intermediate Less than 1 years 3 months or less

Additional Skills

- Full clean driving license
- Good human communication skills.
- Able to control and manage a group of people during work times.